With three Dodger errors in the first three innings, there was definitely a feeling of a hangover from last night's game. Brett Tomko valiantly tried to shrug off the Pirates' early cheapie runs, but crumbled in the sixth. Chad Billingsley's poor seventh (0.1 IP, 2 ER) sealed the loss.

I know it's early in the season, but geez, I don't think I've ever seen a worse centerfielder. Pierre looks completely lost out there. I expect everything to be dropped -- if he even gets to the ball. Most of the time he seems to circle around like he has no idea where the ball is gonna land. Where's the speed? Shouldn't he be making it look easy? We know he can't get on base and he can't throw, but nobody told me he couldn't catch either. He's a 1-tool player. Yipee! Why isn't he in left field? Or playing for the Nationals? And yet, the Dodgers are winning despite his adventures. Go figure.

cigarcow -- re the password not working anymore -- my wife had the same problem. I have a suspicion that it's directly tied to the old Blogger/new Blogger conversion; the old Blogger had an entirely separate system of passwords and userids. The new one is all Google, so you have to have a Google ID to make it work. (This is just a hypothesis at the moment, but it would seem to make sense.)

Incidentally, the picture of the Dodger dog startled me at first; what is the sliver of flesh shown at the bottom? At first I thought, for no reason I can discern, that it was an amputee's stump covered by a white yarmulke or a brassiere cup. But then I realized there was no way you could really fit that into the picture; where is the amputee it would have belonged to?